Problem with Macports install

Paul Denlinger paul.denlinger at gmail.com
Fri Jul 4 00:00:44 PDT 2008


I just tried again and it worked. I think the problem may have been  
because I tried to do the update in a public library, and the network  
admin may have blocked that port. It worked fine at home.

Thanks!


On Jul 3, 2008, at 10:57 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Jul 3, 2008, at 23:47, Paul Denlinger wrote:
>
>> I'm having a problem with my Macports install. When I use the:
>>
>> sudo port -d selfupdate
>>
>> command, I get the following response:
>>
>> DEBUG: Rebuilding the MacPorts base system if needed.
>> DEBUG: Synchronizing ports tree(s)
>> Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/ 
>> release/
>> ports/
>> DEBUG: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync:// 
>> rsync.macports.org/
>> release/ports/ /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/
>> release/ports
>> rsync: failed to connect to rsync.macports.org: Connection refused  
>> (61)
>> rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /SourceCache/rsync/
>> rsync-31/rsync/clientserver.c(94)
>> DEBUG: Couldn't sync the ports tree: Synchronization the local ports
>> tree failed doing rsync
>>     while executing
>> "macports::selfupdate [array get global_options]"
>> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync the
>> ports tree: Synchronization the local ports tree failed doing rsync
>>
>> Can you tell me what commands I need to give to fix things?
>
> Not really.... does rsync work on your network or is it maybe  
> blocked by network administrators?
>



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